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Anna Paulowna railway station

railway station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2198127 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anna Paulowna railway station serves the town of Anna Paulowna, Netherlands. The station opened on 20 December 1865 and the station is on the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway. In 1971 a new building, by architect C. Douma, replaced the old one. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Anna Paulowna railway station” is railway station. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anna, Paulowna and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1865, 1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Anna, Paulowna and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2198127. Authority coordinates are 52.867, 4.811. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1865 and 1971.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Anna Paulowna railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Anna Paulowna railway station primary sources, Anna Paulowna railway station archive and Anna research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Anna Paulowna railway station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Anna Paulowna railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.